CardinalFang Wrote: > how do high end valve amp companies survive with amps at $20K plus?
Is that a rhetorical question? Surely, SD aims higher than to be a niche audiophile manufacturer like Jolida or Audio Research. SD is part of, if not leading, nothing short of an audiophile revolution here. No more CD players. Transports are dead as we know them (unless you still listen to vinyl). I for one thank my luck stars I never plopped down several grand on any of the now-obsolete transports out there. For a few hundred dollars, the SB3 is better than any Class A Stereophile digital source component. I think it's only a matter of time, months, perhaps, before publications add recommendations for "Digital Media Servers (Gateways?)" like the SB3. SD should focus on the digital serving, not the processing. Let audio companies with decades of experience, like Meridian and Theta Digital, continue to improves DACs. I bet we will see those companies (and the likes of Benchmark, Bel Canto, etc) reduce the price of their DAC's as that particular component becomes more critical again. For the last decade or so there was a move back to integrated CD players, now with the advent of products like the SB3, there is a renewed interest in separate digital processors. That will drive the price of very good DACs down to a level that most of us who care about such things can afford. If Slim Devices tries to make the SqueezeBox all things to everyone, it will become bogged down and bloated with "features". I for one hope that doesn't happen. -- ezkcdude ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19016 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
